Waterloo.AI hosts monthly seminar series to foster discussion and collaboration around active topics of AI research at the University of Waterloo. Each seminar includes a talk by a guest speaker audience discussion, and a following reception with light refreshments for further discussion and networking. Please click the topic links for details. Past seminar recordings are available on YouTube.
Upcoming Seminars
December 9, 2024 |
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm In-Person - DC 1304 |
Amrit Singh Bedi | Tuning Free (Inference Time) Alignment of Large Language Models |
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Past Seminars
Fall 2024
Date | Speaker | Topic | Youtube Recordings |
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Monday, December 2, 2024 | Siva Reddy | Unlocking Complex Reasoning With Generative Models |
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Thursday, November 28, 2024 | Sophia Yun-Hsuan Lien | Bridging the Reality Gap in Reinforcement Learning: Robust Algorithms and Techniques for Practical Applications |
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Friday, October 18, 2024 | Agustinus Kristiadi | Probabilistic Inference and Decision-Making with Foundation Models for Bayesian Optimization |
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Spring 2024
Date | Speaker | Topic | Youtube Recordings |
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Friday, July 19, 2024 | Dr. Arka Roy | Uncertainty Management in Radiotherapy via AI & Optimization | N/A |
Thursday, June 13th, 2024 | Elliot Creager | To Build AI that works for everyone, Adapt Models and Coordinate Data |
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Thursday, May 30th, 2024 | Dr. Amir-Hossien Karimi | Towards Trustworthy Human-Machine Collaboration |
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Winter 2024
Date | Speaker | Topic |
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February 2, 2024 | Dr. Kevin He | Learning from Viral Content |
February 21, 2024 | Dr. Max Li | Uncertainties in the Airspace |
March 4th, 2024 | Saber Jafarpour | Safety Assurance in Learning-enabled Autonomous Systems |
March 6th, 2024 | Jana Pavlasek | Think Graphical Act Local |
March 7th, 2024 | Jun Gao | Generative AI for 3D Content |
March 11th, 2024 | Dr. Jeremy Wang | Ribbit — Canada's first autonomous airplane and R&D platform |
March 12th, 2024 | Krikamol Muandet | Towards Imprecise Generalisation |
March 20, 2024 | Roya Fallah Firoozi | Safe Robot Autonomy |
March 27th, 2024 | Lunjia Hu | Mathematical Foundations for Trustworthy Machine Learning |
April 1st, 2024 | Sarah Cen | Paths to AI Accountability |
April 3rd, 2024 | Misha Khodak | The Long Tail of AI |
April 12th, 2024 | Adam Dziedzic | Private Prompt Learning for LLM |
April 12th, 2024 | Franziska Boenisch | Individualized Privacy and Memorization in Machine Learning Models |
Fall 2023
Date | Speaker | Topic | Youtube Recordings |
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Dec. 5th, 2023 | Prof. Apurva Narayan | Improving Resilience and Trust in AI Driven Cyber Physical Systems |
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Nov. 24th, 2023 | Prof. Han Zhao | Fair and Optimal Prediction via Post-Processing |
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Nov. 2nd, 2023 | Prof. Lila Kari | Machine Learning for Biodiversity Informatics |
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Sept. 18th, 2023 | Prof. Mo Chen | Interpretable Reinforcement Learning through Control and Human-Robot Interactions |
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Spring 2023
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July. 21st, 2023 | Prof. Baoxiang Wang | Information Design in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning |
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July. 7th, 2023 |
Prof. Lili Mou | Modelling Uncertainty in Text Generation | ||
June. 6th, 2023 |
Prof. Gennaro Notomista | Learning to Execute Prioritized Stacks of Robotic Tasks |
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May. 10th, 2023 |
Dr. Prashant Doshi | Fully Decentralized RL in Complex Multi-Agent Settings |
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Fall 2022
Date | Speaker | Topic | Youtube Recordings | |
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Dec.8th, 2022 |
Dr. Ali Ayub | Long-term Real World Autonomy Assistance for Assistive Robots |
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Nov. 10th, 2022 |
Boris Ivanovic Research Scientist in Nvidia's Autonomous Vehicle Research Group | Effectively Integrating Behavior Prediction within the Modern Robotic Autonomy Stack |
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Oct. 13th, 2022 | Prof. Abbas Houssam, Oregon State University | Logic-Based Computational Ethics for Autonomous Agents |
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Sept. 8th, 2022 | Dr. Radoslav Ivanov | Safe autonomy within reach: a verified machine learning and control perspectiv |
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SPRING 2022
WINTER 2022
Date | Speaker | Topic | Youtube Recordings |
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Mar. 17, 2022 | Prof. Dorsa Sadigh | Learning from Non-Traditional Souces of Data |
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Mar. 3, 2022 | Prof. Jackie C. K. Cheung | Keeping Track of Entities Over Time, Minds, and Knowledge Sources |
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Feb. 3, 2022 | Prof. Martha White | Developing Reinforcement Learning Agents that Learn Many Subtasks |
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FALL 2021
Date | Speaker | Topic | Youtube Recordings |
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Nov. 9, 2021 | Prof. Elias Khalil | Deep Reinforcement Learning for Online Combinatorial Optimization: The Case of Bipartite Matching |
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SPRING 2021
Date | Speaker | Topic | Youtube Recordings |
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May 18, 2021 | Prof. Katja Mombaur | Embodied intelligence for human-centred robots - Combining model-based optimization with model-free methods |
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WINTER 2021
Date | Speaker | Topic | Youtube Recordings |
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Apr. 20, 2021 | Animesh Garg | Building blocks of Generalizable Autonomy in Robotics |
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Apr. 6, 2021 | Andreas Loukas | Erdos Goes Neural: an Unsupervised Learning Framework for Combinatorial Optimization on Graphs |
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Mar. 9, 2021 | Dr. Thomas Dietterich | Providing Prospective Guarantees on the Performance of MDP Policies |
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Jan. 12, 2021 | Dr. Mark Riedl | The Quest for Automated Story Generation |
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FALL 2020
Date | Speaker | Topic | Youtube Recordings |
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Dec. 1, 2020 | Prof. Graham Taylor | Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks: Iterative Generation and Holistic Evaluation |
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Nov. 19, 2020 | Prof. Peter van Beek, Prof. Hamid Tizhoosh, Prof. Kate Larson, Prof. Wayne Chang, Kevin Tuer (Communitech), & Prof. Charles Clarke | AI for Managers and Executives - Webinar Series Pt.3 - Preparing Your Organization to Leverage AI at Scale |
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Nov. 5, 2020 |
Prof. Peter van Beek, Prof. Wayne Chang & Prof. Pascal Poupart Graduate Students: |
AI for Managers and Executives - Webinar Series Pt. 2 - From the Lab to Production |
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Nov. 3, 2020 | Dr. Emtiyaz Khan | Towards Life-Long Deep Learning with Bayes |
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Oct. 29, 2020 | Prof. Vijay Ganesh | Machine Learning and Logic Solvers: The Next Frontier | |
Oct. 22, 2020 | Prof. Fakhri Karray & Prof. Hamid Tizhoosh | AI for Managers and Executives - Webinar Series Pt. 1 - Separating Fact From Fiction |
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Oct. 6, 2020 | Prof. Taylor | Reinforcement learning in the real world - how to "cheat" and still feel good about it |
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Sept. 15, 2020 | Dr. Ashkan Sami | Dependability and Security and How to Improve Both at the Same Time |
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WINTER 2020
Date | Speaker | Topic |
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Jan. 17, 2020 | Ryan Smith | Emotion-cognition Interactions as Deep Active Inference |
Jan. 10, 2020 | Roger Melko | Designing a quantum computer with generative models |
FALL 2019
Date | Speaker | Topic | Youtube Recordings |
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Dec. 6, 2019 | Qiang Liu | Recent Applications of Stein's Method in Machine Learning | |
Dec. 5, 2019 | Kristian Kersting | Deep Machines That Know When They Do not Know | |
Nov. 22, 2019 |
Paul Hebert |
Progress Towards Planetary Biosurveillance | |
Nov. 8, 2019 | Chris Eliasmith | Spiking Neural Networks for More Efficient AI Algorithms |
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Oct. 4, 2019 | Pascal Poupart | Unsupervised Video Object Segmentation for Deep Reinforcement Learning |
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Sept. 12, 2019 | Mark Crowley | Artificial Intelligence on Fire! |
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SPRING 2019
Date | Speaker | Topic |
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Jul. 30, 2019 | Kimon Fountoulakis | Local Graph Clustering |
May 28, 2019 | Shai Ben-David | Unsupervised learning; what can, what can't and what should not be done |
WINTER 2019
Date | Speaker | Topic |
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Apr. 29, 2019 | Kerstin Dautenhahn | Human-robot interaction: Challenges and Opportunities |
Mar. 25, 2019 | Seyed Majid Zahedi | Game-Theoretic Approach to Resource Management in Computer Systems |
Mar. 1, 2019 |
Amir Shabani |
Human-centered Intelligent Systems |
Feb. 25, 2019 | Khalid Al-Kofahi | AI and ML at Thomson Reuters |
Jan. 28, 2019 | Yuri Boykov | Reconstructing Whole Vessel-tree: Challenges, Geometric Priors, and Optimization |
Jan. 25, 2019 | Xiao-Ping Zhang | Multimedia Machine Learning/AI for Multimedia Content Analysis |
FALL 2018
Date | Speaker | Topic |
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Nov. 26, 2018 | Robin Cohen | Trust modelling in multiagent systems: a look back and a look ahead |
Oct. 29, 2018 | Vijay Ganesh | Machine Learning for SAT Solvers |
Sept. 24, 2018 |
Hamid Tizhoosh |
Artificial Intelligence - History, Opportunities and Challenges |
Organizing committee
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo.